Platt v. Adriance
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
These are suits by William A. Platt, as receiver of the Commercial National Bank of Colorado, against I. Reynolds Adriance, William A. Adriance, and John E. Adriance, respectively, as stockholders, in such bank. Heard on motions to require plaintiff, who resides in Denver, Colo., to file security for costs.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
Congress has provided that, in certain actions which are brought under federal statutes, no security for costs-shall be given; but it was not so disregardful of the rights of the individual citizen as to deprive him of his right to costs in the event of his success. The section of the Revised Statutes reads as follows:
“Sec. 1001. Whenever * * * process in the law * * * issues from ¡„ circuit court * * * by direction of any department of the government no bond, obligation or security shall be required * * * to answer * * * in *773costs. In ease of an adverse decision, such…
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- Kennedy v. GibsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
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